I believe that Romney will win, mostly because Obama is so predictable. Romney is practiced in self-control, while Obama is a loose cannon. Obama, even with the biased Fourth Estate cheer-leading him on, will blow it in the debates. He, (Obama), has an underlying anger about him. He can not stand challenges from anyone.

I believe that Romney will win, mostly because Obama is so predictable. Romney is practiced in self-control, while Obama is a loose cannon. Obama, even with the biased Fourth Estate cheer-leading him on, will blow it in the debates. He, (Obama), has an underlying anger about him. He can not stand challenges from anyone.

I just spent a week in Texas, and I learned a lot while down there. First off: They HATE Obama, and I mean HATE. They will spend hours railing against his policies, his person, his administration, but really don't want to talk about anything else. I brought up the Democratic Congress, and the majority of the people were: Meh... but that Obama sucks! Secondly, they don't think Mitt is the right guy for the job. But, at least he's not Obama. They are embarrassed by Mitt, don't want to talk about him, refer to him as 'the Republican candidate' and refuse to talk about subjects revolving around him.

Lastly, there was something very eye opening about the whole affair. When I brought up hard data and facts, they outright refused to believe them. When I showed it to them, their statement was: "Facts are something Liberals use when they don't like the truth." To them, facts and truth are 2 separate entities, and facts are a liberal agenda.

When I said the fact was Obama was going to win this election, the overall consensus was: Yeah, he is, and it sucks, because I hate him.

Truth of all this is the Republicans deserve a better candidate than Romney, and they know it. Even the RNC knows this and they know they weren't going to oust Obama from office, so they are banking of the 2016 election. This information comes from deep in the heart of Texas from hardcore, lifelong Republicans. They know the scorecard and are simply making noise about the election because they always do, not because they believe in their candidate. Those that are serious about Romney actually having a chance are deluded and don't speak for 'true Republicans'.

My thoughts: The Republican party is too fractured right now, and Mitt is trying to pander to them all while still trying to collect votes from the middle and is losing 2 votes for every one he grabs. He's not so much giving the votes to Obama, the people just won't hit the polls (or so they say). With politics these days, everyone will show up in droves to put a check next to the name with a (D) or (R), regardless of the policies.

I will, once again, abstain, as I don't think either candidate has what we need.

For those that don't want to click a Stinker article, let me summarize: "The polls showing Obama with 50+% of the vote are clearly wrong because 100% of the people writing this article are voting for Romney. How can you possibly, in good conscience, reconcile polls that show Obama with over 50% of the vote with the unassailable fact that 100% of the people writing this article are going to vote for Romney?"

Three Crooked Squirrels:For those that don't want to click a Stinker article, let me summarize: "The polls showing Obama with 50+% of the vote are clearly wrong because 100% of the people writing this article are voting for Romney. How can you possibly, in good conscience, reconcile polls that show Obama with over 50% of the vote with the unassailable fact that 100% of the people writing this article are going to vote for Romney?"

Even that's not true. I'd bet that only around 5% of people voting in November will actually vote for Romney. The rest are going to vote either for Obama or against Obama.

HST's Dead Carcass:I just spent a week in Texas, and I learned a lot while down there. First off: They HATE Obama, and I mean HATE. They will spend hours railing against his policies, his person, his administration, but really don't want to talk about anything else.

Tell me about it. Growing up in NE Houston, my FB news feed makes American Thinker look like the New Yorker. Hate is a mild word. There's people who will post links to right-wing BS then state they don't believe 90% of the media. I had one centered friend tell another about the USS Liberty Incident (they had been ranting about Obama not meeting with PM Netanyahu and the subject came up) and they pretty much refused to believe it.

What's amazing is that many of them are very religious and any other day wouldn't hesitate to tell you about how Mormonism is an abomination and a cult. And what really sucks it that this hate you describe pretty much ruins family gatherings.

HST's Dead Carcass:Lastly, there was something very eye opening about the whole affair. When I brought up hard data and facts, they outright refused to believe them. When I showed it to them, their statement was: "Facts are something Liberals use when they don't like the truth." To them, facts and truth are 2 separate entities, and facts are a liberal agenda.

This is something that bothers me. I know a lot of people who self-identify as conservative hate the "liberal agenda" but none of them can actually really factually identify what it is. They can only spew out what they think it is, regardless of how inaccurate their view.

They HATE Obama, just like they HATED Clinton; the answers are almost certainly "freedom" or "UN" or, in the '90's "ZOG" or some other nonsensical and entirely unsupported conspiracy that the liberals are going to lock them all up and promote one-world government.

The fact that, in actual governance, this has never been true and the Democratic Party tends to govern center-right doesn't ever make its way past their lizard brain. From my recollection, it has been this way in full effect since 1994, starting, really, in 1992.

These same people will make massive leaps to justify voting for Romney. I have a coworker who, after Romney's speech at the RNC, said "I didn't trust him, I didn't like him, but he presented a good policy and I think he has the right plan so I will probably vote for him."

Good policyRight plan

Romney presented no policy and no plan. He never has; but to vote for him, you would have to make that leap and fill in the whitespace with something.

UberDave:HST's Dead Carcass: I just spent a week in Texas, and I learned a lot while down there. First off: They HATE Obama, and I mean HATE. They will spend hours railing against his policies, his person, his administration, but really don't want to talk about anything else.

Tell me about it. Growing up in NE Houston, my FB news feed makes American Thinker look like the New Yorker. Hate is a mild word. There's people who will post links to right-wing BS then state they don't believe 90% of the media. I had one centered friend tell another about the USS Liberty Incident (they had been ranting about Obama not meeting with PM Netanyahu and the subject came up) and they pretty much refused to believe it.

What's amazing is that many of them are very religious and any other day wouldn't hesitate to tell you about how Mormonism is an abomination and a cult. And what really sucks it that this hate you describe pretty much ruins family gatherings.

Stop going to them. Just because you accidentally share an ancestor with some farkwit doesn't mean you have to like them.

All the local digital antenna channels around here seem to have been bought up by televangelists. I flipped past Jimmy Swaggart's 24 hour praise-a-thon the other day and his creepy son was condescending to some black minister, explaining to him that THEY all just voted for Obama in 2008 because he was black. This time THEY had to do the RIGHT thing. *wink* *wink*

This from people that, on any other day of the week, would tell you Mormons weren't really Christians and were going to Hell.

Three Crooked Squirrels:For those that don't want to click a Stinker article, let me summarize: "The polls showing Obama with 50+% of the vote are clearly wrong because 100% of the people writing this article are voting for Romney. How can you possibly, in good conscience, reconcile polls that show Obama with over 50% of the vote with the unassailable fact that 100% of the people writing this article are going to vote for Romney?"

Presumably you would split the difference and say it is 25% to 75% for Romney. Right it down on paper and if the paper doesn't burst into flames, you have your confirmation.

Krymson Tyde:I believe that Romney will win, mostly because Obama is so predictable. Romney is practiced in self-control, while Obama is a loose cannon. Obama, even with the biased Fourth Estate cheer-leading him on, will blow it in the debates. He, (Obama), has an underlying anger about him. He can not stand challenges from anyone.

I'm really interested in seeing how tools like this reconcile their fantasy world with reality when Obama gets his second term. I guess they'll just dream up some election fraud or other baseless conspiracy theory.

If anything, the closer we get to Election Day, the more apparent it is that Obama is not only losing, but losing big. The Obama campaign, and by "campaign" I mean members of the media and polling organizations, is trying to convince prospective Romney voters to believe that all is lost -- in which case, they hope, we will stay home.

I wonder how they're going to handle it when Obama gets sworn in for a second term? do you think they'll crack up completely or find a way to come to terms with a reality they've feared for 2 years now...?

As long as there are two Republican parties and people want to equate the Tea Party Republicans with EVERY Republican, then the party is farked. Not that that makes Mitt someone even the most sane and un-Teatardish Republican wants to elect, but still.

In general, the parties are just plain losing touch with reality. Seems like both sides are shifting AWAY from center when it's obvious that's exactly what we don't need. We need compromise, we need moderation, and we need to not argue over every last little petty procedural point in every last vote. Either that, or we need to split up and let the more extreme wings take their halves of the country and prove each other wrong (which, almost invariably, they'll both fail at).

Weaver95:If anything, the closer we get to Election Day, the more apparent it is that Obama is not only losing, but losing big. The Obama campaign, and by "campaign" I mean members of the media and polling organizations, is trying to convince prospective Romney voters to believe that all is lost -- in which case, they hope, we will stay home.

I wonder how they're going to handle it when Obama gets sworn in for a second term? do you think they'll crack up completely or find a way to come to terms with a reality they've feared for 2 years now...?

I think most will find a way to deal with it, most likely though they will be yelling about election fraud and the need for more voter restriction. But I think there will be a few that completely crack up.